Easy vegan breakfast suggestions
Posted by Bovina on Jan 19, 2010 · Member since Dec 2009 · 73 posts
Hi everyone
I'm looking for some easy breakfast ideas. I've never been much of a breakfast person, and not much of a fruit eater either. I do like juices but tend to shy away from them because they're so calorie dense.
I don't have time to cook in the morning during the week. I do most of my cooking, chopping and prepping Sunday afternoons for the rest of the week.
I'd love to hear any ideas for a healthy balanced breakfast I can make in a hurry. If I can eat it in the car it's even better.
Thank you so much!
So I'm guessing a nice smoothie is out of the question?
Pitas are the first thing that come to my mind. Warm a pita up in the microwave and spread some cream 'cheese' (like tofutti) inside and insert veggies! Spinach, sliced beets, diced tomatoes, mushrooms, etc.. yum yum yum. Sprinkle ground flax seeds and you have yourself a breakfast!
Also... a toastable waffle with some nut butter on top would be lovely.
I LOVE my morning smoothies. They fill me like no other. I'll give you the recipe anyways: (these measurements are approximated) 1 cup soy milk, 1/2 cup blueberries, 1/2 frozen banana, 2 tablespoons wheat germ, 1 tbsp ground flax seeds, 2 tsp spirulina (optional), and 2 tsp soy lecithin (also optional).
I don't see why you couldn't put a smoothie in one of those travelling cups, the kind with a straw...
I actually do drink smoothies on the weekends. I love them.
I know this sounds kind of petty, but I am up at 4:30 a.m. If I run the blender at that time everyone in the house would gang up on me and throw my blender out the window.
Ah yes.. that makes sense. You said you weren't too keen on fruit, so I didn't know.. They have some great vegan protein shakes (or just vegan protein powder- such as rice protein) you can stir with soy milk! I didn't think of that earlier. That would be super quiet to make!
1. Oatmeal -- Make in a slow cooker the night before. When you wake up it is ready and you can enjoy at home with banana, cinnamon and brown sugar(or whatever flavor you like). Or pack it to go and take with you to work.
2. Muffins -- Make a batch of the muffins( I like the Very Simple Blueberry Muffins on this site, but you can substitute with other flavors). Muffins freeze well. Take one out of microwave each morning and zap into the microwave for 10-15 seconds, or until warm. Or just take one out the night before to thaw out in time for your morning breakfast.
I don't like breakfast foods, either, really. Maybe make a tofu scramble, and use it in breakfast burritos the rest of the week. Bagels w/ tofutti cream cheese. I eat sandwiches in the car on the way to work, or sometimes a bar(like Odwalla or Luna or Lara).
I second oatmeal. Oooooh, how I love my oatmeal. I don't have a slow-cooker, but I can pop a bowl of oatmeal with some water in the microwave and have it ready to eat within two minutes. When I was a kid I hated the stuff, but I learned when I tried it again as an adult that my parents just had no idea how to cook it. Consistency is key! If you've tried it earlier in life and didn't like it, you might also try it with some different fixings. Cinnamon and sugar, dried fruit and nuts, PB&J, cocoa powder, maple syrup, banana and brown sugar, or even savor flavors (soy sauce, pepper, etc) are all really popular add-ins.
I dunno if this is "car food" but a microwaved potato is the way I usually go. Top with hummus or whatever floats your boat.
Maybe a wrap? I'm a great believer in, if it's good food for lunch or supper it's good for breakfast too. I have a penchant for things like warmed-over pizza! so any food you could wrap up in a tortilla and go would work, heated or not. But don't be like me and try to fill the tortilla so much that it drips at every bite. ;)
wrapping tofu scramble in a tortilla sounds amazing right now! I wish I had one! Make the scramble the night before, when eating it keep the bottom part wrapped up as you eat the top.
okay, i REALLY was craving that breakfast wrap! YUM, I just went in made one and am currently eating it, while posting the recipe to the site, I made it "cheesy"-style with nutritional yeast.
Thanks to everyone.
I bought some instant oatmeal last night to try with some savory add ins. Not a huge fan of oatmeal but I'm going to try it with non-sweet add ins to see if I can get the hang of it.
I'm also going to make some 'breakfast' burritos this weekend and freeze them for breakfast during the week.
Great ideas!
Not every morning but every other just about, I soak oatmeal (steelcut) overnight with various nuts or seeds and eat that in the morning. If that seems a bit too much how about dried fruit, granola, nut, seeds, dried coconut. A combination of all mentioned would make a decent power meal and gets you going on a lesser processed foods.
Another quickie are avocado sandwiches. You can ripen them quickly in a brown paper bag overnight.
I always make enough for leftovers, rice (from last night) with some sesame oil cant be any easier.
And if I absolutely have no time, I grab a cliff or equivalent bar.
But I try to opt for having figs, dates, dried fruit and nuts on hand.
Haha that's actually a really good question.
Every morning, I eat a bagel with hummus and raisin bran with soy milk. and of course...my coffee. It's super quick and really yummy!
i don't really eat breakfast but when i do i love Thomas's bagels (the mono and diglycerides in them are from vegetable sources FYI) with some Tofutti Cream Cheese... heaven on earth those bagels i swear! i also love Special K with Red Berries with some vanilla almond milk (Almond Breeze is my fave)... for me i typically just drink my Chocolate Soy Protein Odwalla when my tummy starts growling :)
I love roasted potatoes for breakfast. I'll turn the oven on when I get up, on my way into the bathroom, five or ten minutes later, shove them in the oven, then go get mostly ready. I usually pack them up and take them to work.
I don't mind reheating ones from the night before, either.